Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-02-10
fan NAyIRs or EUROPE.

I'LL NAS4Ro ~ AoAVr =
0V3o nxonona0n ana MIG 0nns.
~ ~ vedDels Of Italy, Russia, Ger.
11anYs Austria end Turkey are reviewed
~ &k B. J. Resd. il the February
9 Sr~ Of Hasper's Aagazise, with
4 sass Of Greece. Spain
ssi p'~ssssi. @ = re Two rrsa. s,.!: s,..gres
- F1nlyb var ships are speed md bat
~ poWef. The Duilio and Gandolo
k1SS more than IL 900 tons displace.
I,nA With IL knots speed, carry Y
3-rkes OF armor on their sides, and have
o5rk battery Of four l0l-ton Arm
p 4 runs. Even larger are the Italian
- lS6onto. Of l3,900 and Is. $50 tons
'l1coo[vely. with $4,000 indicated
{S11cpoWer each, furnishing speed Ql
~ frs,s. They carry 10 !aes:ss Of ar
- 81 their massive towers, within
~1klsh ~ mounted four l0S'ton Arm
a1rcnr gums the heaviest ordnance
nnonf II any navy. l1ose upon these
1111ov the Re Umberto, Stella and
515r3eena. Of l3. 250 tons each, and IL
10y, /, npeed. with 10 inches Of armor on
11o towers, The last five vessels men,
Z 1ioned are each 400 feet long and from
n q 76a feet broad, with 273 feet
1raneht Three more great italian war
,SKips are the LAURA, Morosini and Doria
e ll.O0O tons displacement, l6 knots
tpoed. IA inches OF tower ar
-. and batteries of lO3.t0n guns.
Al these veesels have, Of course,
secondary batteries, torpedo arpli-
eneos. and 90 on. Sir Z. j. Reed
notes that in the eight vessels last named
- srsnor Is used mainly for the gun
tsuers and to cover the machinery and
npagsx nes, and hence does not consider
eksm good examples of "armored sta
hility.
..Ships Of equal speed, merely belted
vjah very thick armor and armed with
n abundance Of comparatively light
ohell guns. would effectually defy them.
Ihers would be NO need Of enormous
nnd costly armaments, or of ponderous
nemored towers, or of huge revolving
fnrrots, for giving battle to ships which
nny ahel's would be able TO open up to
tks invoads of tho sea, and which being
.oooned up would lose their stability,
and insist upon turning bottom upward.
Bot for the purposes of the italian
Government, as l conjecture them, the
Italian class of ships, large as they are,
have probably been excellent invest
msnts, and may continue to be all the
ffms the priceless value of iinpreguable
bslts and interisr torpedo defenses is
undersiood by so very few"
Dut bestde these great battle ships. 10
which. perhaps, the Palestro and Prin-
eipo Amadeo might be added, Italy has
Gvo unArmored vessels. among which is
~ Giovanni Bausan, going II knots,
and dozen others, built or building,
q Is knots or more. She has nearly
: hundred torpedo boats, finished or
nader construction, several torpedo
VESSELS Of 20 knots speed, and large
- Of 1000 tons, which is to make 10
knots. Altogether Italy's navy is re-
nafkAbly strong.
The Russian navy, which next claims
notice, consists Of two main fleets, the
Dlaok Sea and the Baltic, besides three
1olillas, the Siberian, Caspian and Aral.
II tho Black Sea there are under con.
slrucsion three l6 knot ships, the Cath
orine II, Chesma and Sinope, belted
throughout with lS.inch armor and with
Il-inch armor on their towers, and
armed each with six Acton guns. There
aro also the circular vessels Novgorod
end Popo6, the latter having lS-inch
armoF and two Acton guns. The Baltic
Aeet contains Peter the Great of 934(
tens. with IA knots speed and four 40
ten guus. Ten other effective vessels
are built or building. ranging betweer
Go00 and S400 tons, and with from te
10 inches of armor and Is to l6 knots
upeed. One of these, this Admirs
Nachimoff, was suggested by the House
Naval Committee ss good type of wha
our two new armored cruisers, already
ordered by Congrs IS, might be. Russia
~ also 100 torpedo boats butt or build
ing. and few 20-knot torpedo vessels.
Germany's navy presents four vessels
having l6 inch armor--the Baden, Bal
en-, Sachsen and Wurtemberg. These
arc of 1880 tons displacement. The
Frederick der Crosse and the Pruesser
aro . little smaller, and the Kaiser Q
lit,lo larger, the two former, however
having only 81 and the two latter II
inches of armor. The largest ironclaG
u the German navy is the Koenig Viii
helm of $3.50 tons. l4a knots speed and
12 inches of armor. She was designed
b. Sir e. ]. Reed, as were several othel
of the best German ironclads, wal
lannchsd eighteen years ago and carries
siehteen IA ton guns. To these must
b added the Oldenburg. Friedrich Kar
and Kronprinz, about fifteen armored
frigates aud corvettss and more than {
hundred torpedo boats, while three fas.
unarmored cruisers are building, the
Elisabeth and Ariadne of Is knots and
the Loreiey Of IS. Germany does not
attenpt to compete with the strongest
Of her neighbors on the sea as she does
ON land.
Austria has two powerful ironclads,
the Castoza and the Tegetthoff, three
bslted ships with central battery, and
the two new ironclads building, one of
which. the Kronprinz Rudolph, is of
$500 tons. She has good many less
effective ships and q fair supply Of tor.
pedo craft, most important Of which are
three Of Sir w. Armstrong; lS.knot
vessels.
Tutkay has the powerful 9000.rcc..,,
armored Mesoodiven, designed by Sir f.
]. Reed, of IA knots speed, ard also the
Hem;diyeh, q little smaller, besides thir.
teen other ironclsds, ranging from 200(
to 5000 tons, and with from 81 to 6
inches of armor. The best of these il
the Feth j. Buland. She has also seven
teen torpedo boats. Greece has twenty.
seven torpedo boats. one torpedo vessel oi
IA knots, ore fast cruiser, the Admiral
ViAnlio Of 10 knots, and two weak iron
elads.
Spain has the Vittcria. an ironclad Of
"A knots, and ia building at La Seyne 9
great steel tnrret ship. the PeIayo, Of
4o3o tons. with .o.sncn armor on its
citadel and lgI on its turrets. It is tC